Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.